How to Use outbreak in a Sentence

outbreak

noun

• The Grand Rapids outbreak is believed to have been caused in this manner.
  — Staff Report, Twin Cities, 13 Feb. 2024
• About 15 people have been tested in this outbreak, the CDC says, and only one had the virus.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
• Last Thursday, researchers at the CDC published something akin to a post-mortem of the 2022 outbreak that wasn't.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
• The same thing happened around 2017, when a hepatitis outbreak killed more than a dozen.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• Last year, more than 52 million birds in the United States died because of avian flu outbreaks.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
• Even in recent weeks there has been a new outbreak of violence and threats.
  — Greg Miller, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• Russia’s own currency has weakened since the outbreak of the war.
  — Olesya Dmitracova, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
• The show skidded off track in 2020 — canceled at the last minute because of the coronavirus outbreak — and had been stalled until now.
  — James Brooks and Jamey Keaten, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
• By the time the outbreak ended, it’s believed that between 25 to 50 million may have died across the Mediterranean, though this is debated.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
• Harvesting pines minimizes the risk of budworm outbreak, as well as the risk of wildfires.
  — Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2023
• Most were due to norovirus (47%) and salmonella (17%), at least among outbreaks with known causes.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 6 June 2023
• Schools spokeswoman Julie Moult said in an email that the school district reports outbreaks to the county health department.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• Broward County, Florida is in the midst of a measles outbreak in an elementary school.
  — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Why a measles outbreak is dangerous Measles' symptoms include a fever, cough, runny nose, white spots inside the mouth, and rashes that spread across the body.
  — Juliana Kim, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
• The last time a salmonella outbreak occurred among the melons was in 2019, just before their peak season.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2023
• Underneath the radar, many little outbreaks of fentanyl have occurred in North Texas.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
• For farms, the global outbreak poses a high economic cost as the virus kills millions of chickens and other poultry birds.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• The federal agency said the number of people sickened by the outbreak is likely much higher.
  — Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2023
• The report comes at a time of rising anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim crimes following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• So yes, Democrats supported expanding slavery at the outbreak of the Civil War.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
• His comments came even as the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas threatens to further strain ties that are already at their lowest point in decades.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2023
• But while the beetles are considered to play a role in the boreal forest lifecycle, outbreaks in the modern era have been different than those in the past.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
• Bloody fevers lead outbreaks, deaths When crunching numbers on outbreaks, researchers looked at the number of dead, not the number infected.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 10 Nov. 2023
• Researchers can’t predict precisely when or how the outbreak might begin.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2023
• The current outbreak has affected many new wild bird species and persisted for longer than previous ones.
  — Will Stone, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
• Public transport has been a cause for concern in recent months with a bedbug outbreak and overcrowding.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Jan. 2024
• Measles was considered eliminated in the US in 2000, meaning no outbreaks have persisted for a year or more.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
• Delaware has also suffered a measles outbreak scare in recent days.
  — Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
• This has led to a social media platform struggling to keep up with misinformation since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
• Davis has blamed the outbreak of violence on a series of gang retaliations.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024